Tet Offensive: Article Analysis

The first article that was insightful of the time before the Tet Offensive came from a newspaper called The Tuscalossa News in August 5, 1964 which is a day after a big attack on American Navy by the North Vietnamese. This article goes by the title of Bipartisan Support Due to Action of Viet Nam. Before getting into the article itself the term Bipartisan need to be defined to help understand what the article is about. Bipartisan happen when two political parties that usually oppose each other 's policies are involving the agreement or cooperation with each other. The article discussed about the two American political parties, Democrats and Republican in the Senate to come to agreement over Johnson’s action for the Southwest Asia. It talks …show more content…
This new report describes a win for the American side of the fight in the Vietnam War. The sub head of the report is 117 Viet Cong Body Count after One Battle. The article tells the reader about the two victories that the American and South Vietnamese army had won. These one of the victories took place in An Hoa which is located 340 miles north of Saigon. Another victory that the American and South Vietnamese army had won was located seventy miles north of the imperial capital of Hue where Marine unit reported killing forty-eight North Vietnamese Guerrilla fighters. The article describes other killing of the North Vietnamese guerrilla fighter and it the total out to be two hundred and forty-six Viet Cong killed and two hundred weapon capture by the American and South Vietnamese army. There were sub article within the report itself. one of the article talk about plans to bomb North Vietnamese due the weather improve and another sub article describing a young Viet Cong who could not be more the fifteen was left behind to kill American and later was killed while chain to a machine …show more content…
The articles on the Vietnam war before the Tet Offensive was very positive about the war for the most part. There were article about the people who were against the war but for mostly it was pro-Vietnam War. That all change when the Tet Offensive happen. People start to criticize what was happen when the North Vietnam attack in attack cities and military base in South Vietnam on the Tet Holiday, January 30, 1968. This lead to the impression that the Vietnam war was going in the American and South Vietnamese favor to demolition into a lot of little peace which can be seen the news article publish after this